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Cancer programs hit the “reset” button to deliver care during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 has compelled oncology practices to hit the “reset" button for their whole care delivery model. Community Oncology Alliance recently assembled a panel of community cancer practices for a webinar, “The Impact of COVID-19 on Oncology Practices and How They Are...
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Cancer programs hit the “reset” button to deliver care during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 has compelled oncology practices to hit the “reset" button for their whole care delivery model. Community Oncology Alliance recently assembled a panel of community cancer practices for a webinar, “The Impact of COVID-19 on Oncology Practices and How They Are...
Cancer programs respond to COVID-19
The Advisory Board’s Oncology Roundtable recently hosted a webinar where they shared what they have heard from cancer programs responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Patient Safety Obviously priority number 1 is patient safety. As the virus spreads in every state in the...
Urgent Care for Cancer Patients: Reducing ED Visits and Hospitalizations
Reducing avoidable emergency department visits and hospitalizations for cancer patients continues to be a challenge for many providers in the shift to value-based care. In light of today’s health crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s become even more important to...
Mapping the Landscape of Digital Technologies in Oncology
This year’s ACCC 46th Annual Meeting & Cancer Center Business Summit included a session titled, “Digital Health Revolution.” We shared a summary of the comments from the panel that was assembled for the discussion, but there was also an introductory portion...
Patient-Reported Outcomes, Remote Monitoring Technology and Value-Based Care
Navigating Cancer’s President and Founder, Gena Cook, spoke at the recent ACCC Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit on the topic of electronic patient-reported outcomes in the context of value-based care. The value of the patient voice in cancer care as...
HHS’ latest interoperability rule’s impact on data sharing
On March 9. 2020, HHS finalized the “21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program.” These rules were proposed at the 2019 Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in order to...
Digital Health Revolution
As the science around cancer treatment rapidly expands, new digital tools are capturing more data than ever, and most cancer care providers are navigating the transition to value-based care, it was no surprise that this year’s ACCC 46th Annual Meeting & Cancer...
Minnesota Oncology Launches Health Tracker Practice-Wide
Minnesota Oncology recently announced the practice-wide implementation of Health Tracker, Navigating Cancer’s patient-reported outcomes program. Minnesota Oncology is leading the way in the state by extending the care they provide with remote monitoring for oral...
Congrats to Gena Cook and the other honorees at this year’s PSBJ Innovators of the Year
The Puget Sound Business Journal honored its 2020 Innovators of the Year yesterday during an event at MoPOP at the base of the Space Needle in Seattle. Navigating Cancer President and Founder Gena Cook was featured during the evening as one of the Puget Sound region’s...
Tactics to reduce avoidable ED utilization and hospitalizations
Recently Navigating Cancer hosted a webinar from the Advisory Board’s Oncology Roundtable titled, “Tactics to Reduce Avoidable ED and Hospital Use.” We were really excited to bring this presentation to our community - our patient relationship management digital...
Support for ePROs in Oncology Care First Model
Earlier this month, Dr. Ethan Basch, Dr. Lalan Wilfong, and Dr. Deborah Schrag joined forces to publish an editorial for JAMA to express their support for the inclusion of electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) collection to the Oncology Care First (OCF) model set...
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